For nonprofit leaders

Your grant budget rests on a handful of funders. What happens if one of them changes priorities?

Get a clear assessment of the role grants can play in your funding plan, the pipeline your goal would take, and the first funders to verify.

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$79 one-time. About five minutes of your time. Delivered within 48 hours of your completed intake, or a full refund.

What arrives

A funding plan your board can weigh.

Recommendations are reviewed before they reach your team, with the evidence and any uncertainty made clear.

A clear call: build against the grant plan, narrow it first, or do not plan around it yet.
Your funding position: a Funding Viability Index out of 100, explained in plain language, and your unrestricted runway in months.
The pipeline your goal would take: planning targets for applications and funder relationships, sized to your organization.
The first 3 to 5 funders to verify: each supported by a real grant to an organization like yours.

You provide your organization and a short description of its work. We build the Assessment from public records; you do not need to gather documents.

See the deliverable

One example, from decision to next steps.

Sample Assessment with identifying details changed. Planning targets are not predictions of awards.

GRANT FUNDING VIABILITY ASSESSMENT / illustrative, details changed / HUMAN SERVICES, $2.6M REVENUE

FUNDING VIABILITY INDEX 55 / 100. THE CALL: BUILD AGAINST IT (Pressured but Well-Supported).

1. The decision

Revenue is trending down while the field grows, but the visible institutional funder market is broad. Diversification is a numbers game you can play. Build the pipeline against the named funders before the slide compounds.

Source: your IRS Forms 990 measured against a field cohort, and the visible institutional grant record (Schedule I).

2. The pipeline math

Grants carrying about half the budget is about $1.3M a year: roughly 4 repeatable wins, about 20 applications, and about 11 funder relationships in cultivation.

Source: your revenue and the cohort's real award sizes; planning assumptions, not a prediction of awards.

3. The funder market and your cushion

About 130 funders have backed two or more organizations like yours; a typical grant runs about $20K, a large one about $50K to $132K. You hold about 40 months of unrestricted runway, the time to build the path to funding before it is needed.

Source: Schedule I cohort award sizes, and your own Form 990, Part X.

The Assessment tells you whether the path to funding is credible. If it is, the next step is live verification of the first 3 to 5 funders, with pursue, cultivate, or remove decisions before staff time is committed.

See a full sample Assessment (PDF)

The real deliverable, with one organization's identifying details changed. This is what lands in your inbox in 48 hours.

From a beta participant

"Our largest renewal did not come through. We had names in Salesforce and no one we could actually call to fill the gap. We trimmed a program to make the year work. That was eighteen months ago. I still feel like I disappointed the community. I was part of the beta with Sharke and this time I got named funders already backing organizations like ours... and a straight answer on whether the numbers worked at our size before we built another calendar. That is what I wish I had eighteen months ago."

Executive Director, $2.1M human services nonprofit, Dallas, TX

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$79 one-time. A board-ready answer in 48 hours.

Delivered within 48 hours of your completed intake, or a full refund. Every Assessment ends in a clear call on your grant plan. If yours does not, email collin@sharke.ai and we will take another look.

What happens after you pay

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Tell us your organization: your EIN and one line about what you do. About five minutes.

Within 48 hours your Assessment arrives: your Index, the call, the pipeline math, and the funder shortlist to verify. Board-ready.

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Before you start

What the Assessment can tell you.

Where does the evidence come from?

We compare your IRS filings with organizations of similar size and mission, then examine visible funder award history. Your report cites its sources and explains where the record is incomplete.

Does this verify that a funder is accepting applications now?

No. Public filings run behind current activity. The Assessment identifies funders worth verifying and sizes the funding plan. Current eligibility, application cycles and live fit are checked in the next stage of work.

What if the evidence does not support our plan?

The report explains the constraint and the next steps: for example, adjusting the timeline or considering a different mix of funding. You receive a clear call and its supporting evidence.

What if we have limited filing history?

The Assessment is strongest with three or more years of IRS filings. A thinner record is identified as a limitation; missing evidence is not filled in.

Is this a subscription?

No. The Assessment costs $79 once. If you later want Sharke to build and maintain the pipeline, the grant team and grant office are separate monthly services.

Who built Sharke

As a strategy consultant and investor, Collin Brown helped companies decide which opportunities deserved their time and money. He has also won more than $1 million in federal grants across several awards.

He built Sharke to bring those two experiences together: deciding which grants are worth pursuing, then doing the work to pursue them. Collin served in the White House Office of Management and Budget and holds a Wharton MBA.